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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Maria, what did Carter do after she married him?
(a) Write a book about her.
(b) Bring her to the hospital.
(c) Take her to Paris.
(d) Put her in his pictures.

2. How is Maria playing on the lawn with the baby as Carter recalls in the beginning of the novel?
(a) She is blowing bubbles to her.
(b) She is tossing a ball to her.
(c) She is tossing water to her.
(d) She is picking dandelions for her.

3. What is the name of the street where the doctor Maria went to see about the pregnancy practices?
(a) Sunset.
(b) Melrose.
(c) Hollywood.
(d) Wilshire.

4. What does Carter threaten Maria with if she does NOT have an abortion?
(a) He threatens to divorce her.
(b) He threatens to take Kate.
(c) He threatens to kill her.
(d) He threatens to tell the media.

5. Why does Maria prefer the studio cut of the second picture Carter made with her?
(a) Because the girl on screen seemed not to have a care in the world.
(b) Because the motorcycle gang seemed to be punished for their crimes.
(c) Because the motorcycle gang seemed to get away with murder.
(d) Because the girl on screen seemed to have a knack for controlling her own destiny.

6. What does the receptionist at Freddy Chaikin's office tell Maria when she arrives without calling?
(a) He's with another client.
(b) He's in the projection room.
(c) He's left for lunch.
(d) He's on the phone.

7. As the novel opens, what meal does Carter like to have out?
(a) Lunch.
(b) Midnight snack.
(c) Dinner.
(d) Breakfast.

8. According to Maria, what was "something no one in the city liked to be near"?
(a) Success.
(b) Trouble.
(c) Poverty.
(d) Happiness.

9. According to Helene, who are the people BZ's mother Carlotta "can't bear"?
(a) Germans.
(b) Irish.
(c) Chinese.
(d) Mexicans.

10. How does BZ respond when Maria asks him if he ever gets tired of doing favors for people?
(a) "Never."
(b) "I get something back."
(c) "You don't know how tired."
(d) "For you, I'll do anything."

11. What was the domestic and foreign gross of the second picture Carter made with Maria?
(a) Just under eight million.
(b) Barely one million.
(c) Just at one million.
(d) Way over eight million.

12. What type of bird does Maria watch at the hospital as the novel opens?
(a) A woodpecker.
(b) A blue jay.
(c) A hummingbird.
(d) A sparrow.

13. What does BZ do with the first picture that Carter made with Maria that she doesn't like?
(a) He seldom runs it.
(b) He runs it often.
(c) He sells it.
(d) He destroys it.

14. According to BZ, what does Larry Kulik have to do to be able to sleep with the young girl at Anita Garson's?
(a) Get her into the Whisky.
(b) Buy her a nice dinner.
(c) Give her lots of gifts.
(d) Put her in a picture.

15. What is Maria consumed by after her mother's death when she lived in New York?
(a) Questions about what her father was doing, where he was.
(b) Questions about working, saving for retirement.
(c) Questions about the universe, the nature of death.
(d) Questions about what her mother was doing, thinking.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Maria's father's business partner?

2. What is the name of the boyfriend Maria had before she met Carter?

3. Why is the volume of the movie that man watches in the next room where Maria has her abortion turned up?

4. Why does Maria dislike the first picture that Carter made with her?

5. According to Maria, what do some people in the hospital where she is committed call her?

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